Josh Davis

Every now and then, someone on the Internet claims to be a time traveler, or else have spotted telltale signs of time travelers, for example, an iPhone in old videos and paintings. These usually turn out to have plausible alternative explanations which don't require humanity to have figured out backwards time travel at some point in our future, nor the traversal of a wormhole. That doesn't stop the claims of time travel coming, though.

Each year, hundreds of thousands of people die of famine across the planet, and with the effects of climate change spiraling, that number is pretty much guaranteed to climb. But in 2021, a team of intercontinental researchers had a wacky idea for how to mitigate it all. Plants, they realized, would be key. The world needs crops to feed its ever-growing population; it needs trees and grasses to capture and absorb carbon, to reduce temperatures and pollution, enrich the soil, and more.

Studying old paintings can give us a surprising glimpse of historic natural history. Josh Davis Josh has a degree in Biology from University College London, and specialises in animals, palaeontology, climate, and the environment.